Lined edit text in android

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hi,
any idea to create a lined edit text like note pad, in android.

Posted 18-Mar-12 20:58pm

sneha john andr

Updated 1-Jun-18 0:02am

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merridus · Answer 1 · 2012-03-18T22:55:00

Solution 1

By the looks of it it's covered in this tutorial on the android developer site.

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html[^]

Posted 18-Mar-12 22:55pm

merridus

Dixit Panchal007 · Answer 2 · 2018-06-01T00:03:00

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.KeyEvent;

/**
* Created by Valentine on 9/28/2015.
*/
public class LinedEditText extends android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText {

private Rect rect;
private Paint paint;

public LinedEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);

rect = new Rect();
paint = new Paint();

paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
paint.setColor(Color.parseColor("#909090"));

setTypeface(context);
}

public void setLineColor(int color) {
paint.setColor(color);
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
int height = getHeight();
int lineHeight = getLineHeight();
int count = height / lineHeight;

// For long text with scrolling
if (getLineCount() > count) {
count = getLineCount();
}

// Draw first line
int baseline = getLineBounds(0, rect);

rect.left = getPaddingLeft() - 100;

rect.offset(5, 5);

for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {

Log.e("Base line : ", "" + baseline);

canvas.drawLine(rect.left, baseline + 40, rect.right, baseline + 40, paint);

baseline += getLineHeight();
}
super.onDraw(canvas);
}

@Override
public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
dispatchKeyEvent(event);
return false;
}
return super.onKeyPreIme(keyCode, event);
}

private void setTypeface(Context context) {
this.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "avenirnextregular.ttf"));
}
}